Girls & Grit!®

Girls & Grit®

Girls & Grit® is a weekly therapy group for Middle & High School Girls.

Date and Time:

We offer two separate Girls And Grit® Groups: one for middle school girls and one for high school girls.

High School:

Thursdays 5 – 6pm

Thursdays 6 – 7pm

Sundays 10:30 – 11:30am

Middle School:

Thursdays 6 – 7pm

What Does “Grit” Mean Anyway?

Courageous, determined, resilient. The kind of stuff it takes to be your real self in today’s world. Granted, it’s not necessarily an easy road. The cool thing is, girls can empower and support each other to be their authentic selves. In Girls & Grit® middle and high school-aged girls will focus on building skills for happiness, hardiness, and mindfulness. Our Girls & Grit® Groups provide girls a place to connect with others, build skills, celebrate successes, and create more of the life you want.

3 Things Girls Like Best About Girls & Grit® Groups:

Finding and giving support in a safe space with other girls

Learning more about “inner” skills, the stuff that helps us get through challenging times. Some of these skills include stressing less throughmindfulness, gratitude and nurturing body & mind.

Practicing “outer” skills, things that can support us from the outside, such as investing in relationships, learning to lead, working through conflict in positive ways, and being empowered advocates for ourselves and others.

Parents:

We like to meet regularly with parents. This provides us an opportunity to let you know about the skills we are teaching and ways that you can support this skill development and hardiness at home. Additional parent coaching is available upon request. We look forward to a collaborative working relationship with you.

To learn more, and to schedule and intake, contact our Intake Coordinator at 626.585.8075, ext. 108.

A Message from Dr. Melissa Johnson:

Here at the Institute, we’re dedicated to empowering girls, women, families, and circles of community. We are excited by current research, including neuroscience, as we implement best practices in assisting girls to grow – in families, through education, and in our global community. Through psychological services, educational workshops, mentorship, and our professional training programs, we seek to build skills and relational connections while advocating for positive social change at school, online, at work and in life. Helping girls grow in mindfulness, happiness, and hardiness, in self-compassion and community, in finding the courage to be true to themselves and allies with others – this is the journey. Sometimes people ask, “why do you do what you do?” Each of us at the Institute has our own unique and impassioned story to tell about why we do what we do. Bottom line, we do it because it matters. It matters for our girls, all our youth, ourselves, and our world.